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AEW COLLISION REPORT

By Cory Strode on 2024-03-02 22:10:00

It is Saturday and AEW Collision was recorded after Dynamite is at the Propst Arena at Von Braun Center in Huntsville, AL, and by the time they were done, the show was over 6 hours. Our commentary team is Tony Schiavone, Kevin Kelly, and Nigel McGuinness.

Buddy Matthews vs ???

Mark Briscoe shows up and Buddy’s opponent bails.  Mark goes after Buddy at ringside. They brawl and Mark grabs a chair, uses it on Buddy, then gets into the ring and uses it as a launching pad putting Buddy through a table set against the barricade. Mark pulls out the spike that had been used on him. Brody King and Malakai Black show up and Mark is able to fight them off, using the chair on King. Mark heads toward Black with the spike, but Buddy takes him out. 

They fight up the ramp, and when Mark reverses a power slam into a back body drop, Buddy rolls off the stage. Mark leaps onto Buddy on the floor and then Mark grabs the Pyro controls. Security is able to stop Mark. As the House of Black pulls Buddy away from the Pyro, Mark gets in a chair and fires off the pyro while pointing at the House of Black.

We then get a backstage promo from Swerve Strickland and he says Adam Page got him, and he will never take his eyes off of him again. He then says he’s taking Samoa Joe’s championship. 

Penta w/Alex Abrahantes vs Bryan Keith vs Dante Martin for an entry into the All Star Scramble

They start by shoving each other and getting in each other’s faces. After Keith gives a head butt to Pentqa, everyone starts firing kicks. Keith is knocked out of the ring and Penta and Martin trade kicks. After Penta nails Martin with a backstabber, Keith gets in the ring. He and Penta change pace and Keith gets an exploder for two. Ketih and Penta trade chops and Martin comes off the top with a cross body onto both of them.

Martin then hits dives on Keith, then crosses the ring for a dive onto Penta as we go to picture in picture. When we return to full screen, it’s a triangle chop fest. It then becomes superkicks. Martin is kicked down and Keith gets out of the Fear Factor by driving Penta into the corner. Keith runs into a superkick from Martin. Penta gets a destroyer on Martin for two, broken up by Keith.

Keith and Penta fight each other and Penta goes to the top, Ketih knocks him to the floor with a head butt. Martin gets an inside cradle for two. Keith gets a power bomb for two. Penta and Keith brawl on the apron, ending with Penta getting a Fear Factor on the apron. Dante leaps into a superkick, but Dante is able to get a destroyer on the apron. Keith is down in the middle of the ring and Dante comes off the top for the pin and the win.

Winner and in the All Star Scramble: Dante Martin

After the match, Penta shakes Martin’s hand, and Keith gets 9int he ring to shake hands as well.

We then get a ranting promo from Adam Page backstage filmed after Dynamite where he says he had to attack Swerve and he’d rather die than let Swerve win the title match. 

Mariah May vs The Already in the Ring Angelica Risk

May shows the moves she will use once she is in competitive matches with double hand chops, wrapping Risk into the top rope and celebrating after each move. May his the May Day for the pin and the win.

Winner: Mariah May

Toni Storm comes down to the ring (in slippers). She dodges a hug from May, and grabs a mic, saying she has to speak to Deonna Purrazzo right away.  Purrazzo comes to the ring. Storm says it’s gone far enough and asks is this what they trained and starved for. Their friendship destroyed and asks if it is worth it. Storm says she doesn’t know and says she loves Purrazzo, he determination, and that there is only room for one. And as long as she lives and breathes, it will never be her.

Purrazzo says that she loves Storm too, and she loves that her head is so far up her own ass, she’s going to lose the title. She also says she is the best friend and the worst enemy. She says Toni better have a bidet because she won’t be able to wipe her hinder when Purrazzo breaks both of her arms. 

Storm says Goodbye old friend, puts on lipstick and gives Purrazzo a goodbye kiss and the brawl begins. May saves Storm and Purrazzo takes May out as Storm is held back by Luther.

Max Caster, Anthony Bowens and Colton Gunn vs The Dark Order (Evil Uno, John Silver, and Alex Reynolds)

Jay White puts an arm around Max Caster on their way to the ring and messes up his rap. Subtle they are not. 

Austin and Reynolds start off and then trade side headlocks. They run the ropes and Austin trips Reynolds and then lays in blows. Caster is tagged in and they give Reynolds a double hip toss. Reynolds drives Caster into the corner and Dark Order works him over. He fights all three off, tags in Bowens who tags Austin and they scissor me timbers on Evil Uno. Silver gets in the ring and is abel to take them down as the tag team siren goes off and everyone is in the ring fighting as we go to picture in picture.

When they return to full screen, Austin has been kept in the ring by Dark Order and Austin gets a cutter on Uno. Both men crawl to their corner and they each tag in a partner. Reynolds is tagged in and Bowens runs wild when he is tagged in. Bowens is thrown into the ring post on the floor and Silver gets in the face of Billy Gunn as Bowens is rolled back into the ring and set up for the Fatality. Silver runs into the ring for Dark Order to hit the move and Bowens is covered for two.

Austin breaks up the pin and then he attacks Uno, but Silver takes him out. Silver and Reynolds attack Bowens in the corner, but Bowens dodges a move from Reynolds, who instead hits Silver. Bowens tags in Caster and slams Reynolds for Caster to hit the mic drop for the pin and the win.

Winners: The Acclaimed and Austin Gunn

Lexi Nair is with Stokely Hathaway, Kris Statlander, and Willow Nightingale, and she lets us know they will have a tag team match against Skye Blue and Julia Hart on Zero Hour tomorrow. Stokely takes over the interview and He keeps putting an elbow on Kris and she brushes it off over and over and he apologizes for costing Kris the match against Skye Blue. Willow says she doesn't care about that, and tomorrow, they are going to kick ass.

Wardlow comes to the ring and tells Tony Schiavone to leave. Wardlow says he finally got someone's attention. He says he will get his title shot after beating the other All Stars in the scramble. He then makes fun of the three men in the title match and how he will beat them. 

When he is done, Chris Jericho comes to the ring. Wardlow says Jericho’s entrance is why he doesn’t get more time. Jericho says that Wardlow still has to win the scrabble, and Jericho’s one of the greatest of all time. Jericho says that the match tomorrow is a chance for him to get back to where he should be, and he asks Wardlow if he’s good enough because all he hears is Wardlow complaining.

Wardlow says that he had to take a bunch of steps down, and he let it ruin his personal life. But he has remembered who he is, he picked himself up and came back to remind everyone who he is. He says the people coming in are why the originals are pushed aside and he’s sick of it. He then tells Jericho to come to the ring and prove something.  Jericho says he will answer the challenge and Hobbs attacks him from behind. Hobbs then yells at Wardlow, One More Day!

In the back, Lexi is with Serena Deeb, and she says she is putting on clinic after clinic and no one has challenged her in the ring yet. She says if you consider yourself one of the best, step into her ring to show your skills. 

Private Party (Marq Quen and Isiah Kassidy) vs Christopher Daniels and Matt Sydal

Sydal and Kassidy start off arguing and Sydal gets a series of tejarises. Sydal then gets arm drags, which sets off the tag team siren and everyone is in the ring giving arm drags.  Daniels and Quen tag in. They start to run the ropes and Quen mocks Daniels. Daniels then mocks Quen the same way and throws in some moves from Curry Man. 

Sydal tags in and they work Quen over with kicks and Sydal hits a standing twisting moonsault for two. Daniels is tagged in and they hit him with a kick and a clothesline for two. They run the ropes and Kassidy kicks Daneils in the back, followed by a drop kick by Quen. Kassidy tags in and hits a cutter on the apron. Daniels is rolled into the ring as we go picture in picture. 

When we return to full screen, Daniels fights out of a chinlock and drops Kassidy. Quen and Sydal tag in and Sydal runs wild. The sequence ends with Sydal getting an air raid crash on Kassidy for two. Quen hits Sydal with a pump kick and Quen holds Syudal for Kassidy to hit a swanton onto him for two. Sydal starts kicking his way out of trouble, and Daniels tags in and throws hands.  Sydal and Daniels hit stereo clotheslines. 

Daniels sets up Angel’s wings on Quen, but Kassidy saves Quen. Quen makes it a back body drop. Sydal hits a meteora off the top onto Kassidy. Daniels gets Angel’s wings and the Jeff Jarrett team runs down and gets on the apron and the ref tells them to leave. On the other side of the ring, Jey Lethal hits the Lethal Combination on Daniels and pulls Quen onto him for the pin and the win. 

Winners: Private Party

Jarrett’s team and Private Party celebrate in the ring.

We get a video showing the feud between Eddie Kingston and Bryan Danielson. 

Thunder Rosa vs The Already In The Ring Cassandra Golden

They lock up and Rosa holds Golden in the clutch as she delivers a series of knees. Rosa then works over Golden with chops, strikes and kicks. She lays in a series of chops in the corner and tries for a fireman’s carry, but Golden fights free.  Rosa gets a drop kick and then follows with another drop kick in the corner. Rosa gets a double stomp off the top and locks in a rear choke and Golden has to tap out.

Winner: Thunder Rosa

We get a video package hyping the match between the Young Bucks and Sting and Darby Allin. 

Collision Main Event

Hook, Daniel Garcia, Orange Cassidy, and Trent Beretta vs Roderick Strong, Brian Cage, Christian Cage, and Killswitch

Matt Menard joins commentary.

Beretta and Cage start off and Cage tosses Beretta to the corner. Beretta grabs a side headlock and Cage shoves him off and drops him with a shoulder tackle. Garcia and Roddy tag in and lock up. Roddy grabs a wristlock and Garcia tumbles out of it. Roddy grabs another arm bar, and Garcia turns it into a side headlock. Roddy gets a side headlock takeover and Garcia moves to head scissors that Roddy escapes. 

They lock up again and go to the corner. Garcia gets chops and then a clothesline in the corner. Cage charges into the ring, and Hook does as well. Garcia runs Roddy into Cage and Roddy is tossed from the ring. This causes the tag team bell to ring and everyone is the ring as we go to picture in picture.

When we return to full screen, Cage works over Garcia in the corner. Cage tries to slam Garcia into the turnbuckle, but Garcia escapes out the back. Garcia mounts the turnbuckle and gives Cage a series of blows before Cage shoves him off.  Cage suplexes Garcia back into the ring from the second rope. Cage’s team goes back to quick tags to work over Garcia.

Cage attempts a stalling vertical suplex, but Garcia turns it into a DDT and both men are down. Roddy is tagged in first and Garcia makes it to tag in Beretta and he cleans house. Beretta’s surge is ended when he dives at Killswitch who hits a chokeslam on the apron, which I hear is the hardest part of the ring. Beretta is rolled into the ring and Roddy starts to work as we go to picture in picture.

When they return to full screen, Beretta is the babyface in peril, unable to tag out. Beretta finally escapes a Boston Crag attempt by Strong, and as Strong tags in Cage, he tags in Cassidy. Cassidy cleans house. It's then time for everyone to hit a finisher on the last person to come into the ring. It ends with Cage getting a face buster on Cassidy for two. All four men are fighting in until we are down to Beretta with a sleeper on Killswitch. Strong has Cassidy on the floor in a Stronghold as Killswitch escapes the sleeper. 

Killswitch goes for a chokeslam and Beretta reverses it into a rollup for two. Beretta gets thrust kicks and Cage gets on the apron and charges. Beretta knocks him down and as the ref is checking on him, Nick Wayne gets on the apron and nails Beretta with a double axe handle, allowing Killswitch to get a clubbing blow for the pin and the win.

Winners: Roderick Strong, Brian Cage, Christian Cage, and Killswitch

The heels beat down the babyfaces after the bell. Menard leaves the commentary table to try to save Garcia, and Killswitch chokeslams him onto a chair. Garcia and Hook start to get the upper hand and we’re desperately out of time!

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